Shrum v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Early v. Street · 58 Tenn. App. 668 - Smith v. Jarnagin · Hickey v. Beeler · Sanders v. McClanahan · 29 Tenn. App. 195 - Haven v. Wrinkle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a will has been lost or destroyed, the person seeking to set it up labors under a severe handicap. Doubtless this is due to the fear that a more elastic rule might bring about more fraud than it would prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.